Today I received a cat-call via myspace. The message's subject simply read 'You are gorgeous!' What was inside the message is inconsiquential, what caught my attention was that adjective: gorgeous. I realized that this seems to be a trend with the type of men that find me attractive; They all find me 'gorgeous.'

I'm not sharing this information as a brag, in fact I'm well aware of the fact that my beauty is an acquired taste and I'm not what you would call conventionally attractive. However, to the men that find me so it's never 'beautiful,' never 'pretty,' never 'stunning,' but always 'gorgeous.' That was actually a nickname given to me by a previous love.

This has to say something about the 'type' of guys that I tend to attract. So let us dissect it's meaning...

Webster's:

gor·geous
Pronunciation:\ˈgȯr-jəs\
Function:adjective
Etymology:Middle English gorgeouse, from Middle French gorgias elegant, perhaps from gorgias wimple, from gorge throat
Date: 15th century

: splendidly or showily brilliant or magnificent

Rather grand, wouldn't you say? Perhaps it shows that it takes a sort of intellect to find me attractive. I mean after all, it's not 'hot' or 'foxy.' These men have a larger vocabulary than that, which is promising.

The word also seems to make a throw-back to earlier times [of which I am a fan]. After all, it was Babs [Barbara Streisand] herself who looked into the mirror in Funny Girl and uttered 'Hello, Gorgeous' back in 1968.

So this information brings me to one of two conclusions:

1. the men who find me attractive are of a higher intellect than most and, like me, fans of vintage phrases, sayings and styles,

or

2. they're gay.

Interesting.

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